what were u expecting?

of course u know the weekend starts on Friday night right? so i went to Zachary's with my cousin, and old coworker, Grace, her cousin and her friend. had some awesome pizza... they had this chicago style w/potato, garlic and rosemary. very nice indeed. oh yea.. and they were 1.5hrs late. now c'mon... i'm a patient person... but this was ridiculous. i understand that she had to pick up 3ppl... but 1.5hrs? that's freakin ridiculous... i was annoyed for a bit, but forgot about it after we started to eat. so this reminded me that i can't be w/a girl who is sooo un-punctual. not that if she's the perfect girl except for this.. that i'll turn her away... but this will just be another factor on "my list" that i'll be looking for. i'm NOT being critical. if this happens once.. fine, whatevers. things happen. but all the time... now that's a different story.

The Last Samurai... so we saw this after we ate. man... this was like, 'Dances with Wolves' plus 'Gladiator' plus 'Braveheart'... but it was freakin awesome. It was long, but i loved every minute of it. so who does the last samurai refer to? I'd like to think they're talking about Katsumoto rather than Cruise, but it could be argued either way. Maybe i shouldn't have enjoyed the movie that much b/c they were talking about this Samurai spirit... and basically, it was this Samurai spirit that led them to invade Korea. Punk asses! haha... oh well.. what's done is done. so i got home around 1am and basically jacked myself... b/c i had to wake up at 4:30am to go boarding.

BOARDING was really nice. there was so much powder at kirkwood. and it didn't snow at all the entire time we were boarding. i felt really comfortable on the blues, but not the blacks... too many deep moguls. i still haven't gone on any jumps this season... am i still afraid? heck yea man! but i was thinking... what's the purpose of boarding? is there something to ascertain by it? it's pretty expensive not to have a goal or anything associated with it. even if it's just for fun... should i have goals? the thing that i really enjoy is when i'm going down a run.. and i take a breather. i'm just sitting on the mountain... looking out onto other mountains and taking in God's creation. Now that in itself is a tremendous blessing, but do i need to spend $50 for a lift ticket to to get that? maybe... i dunno... so after a full day of boarding.. our group went to this ribs joint. man... those might've been the best ribs i've ever had in my life. now my mom makes some freakin good ribs... but they're just not as soft as the ones i had. i think it's b/c my mom's ribs aren't slow cooked, so u don't get that soft tender, pull the bone from the meat feel. so good. so after we got back to the hotel... some of the guys went to the casino, but me and dave went to sleep early since we had to get up early. OH wait.. funny story... so we're walking back to hotel from the parking lot.. and the lot is slick. black ice everywhere. One guy straight falls on his ass and is just laying there... finally gets up and keeps walking... then a girl walks almost along the same path as him, and BAM! same thing! haha... too funny. i can't believe it happened to two ppl in the same spot, like 5seconds apart.

Driving. so we got up at 4:30am so that i could make it to college service at 9:30am. we pack up, and we head out the door.. and it's snowing. the car was covered in snow. we had to put chains on right there... it was kinda eerie heading out in the dead of the night/morning (it was dark) while only being able to see about 20ft in front of us, b/c the snow was coming in pretty hard. it took us 2hrs just to get down the mountain. crazy. even with the chains we spun out once and landed in a ditch, but the car was fine and we eventually got out. the whole experience felt like a movie, until it got brighter. but the snow coming down was just mesmerising. it was wierd. like i could just sit in his car and watch the snow blowing at us, since we were cutting through it. anyways... can't explain much beyond that. finally i got home at 10am, showered up and went to church. nope. i didn't make college service, but i had to go to the children's service to teach, but i got there on time for that.

okay... this is getting pretty long... and i'd rather just talk to ppl about my day/week than write about it... so i'll end it like this: